The currency is a sentence of few words, sort of saying that, by implication, makes known the nobility or the actions of a memorable family. It is still an emblem consisting of the representation of natural or artificial body, or a few words that apply in a figurative sense to praise of a person. The term includes currency figures, puzzles, sentences and proverbs.
The use of currency symbols and dates back to ancient times, and one could easily see the real source of arms.
The tragedy of Aeschylus, entitled: The Seven Worthies before Thebes, and that Euripides entitled: The Phoenicians, testify to this antiquity. In describing these two major poets are masters that Polynices was involved in the quarrel, and that followed the siege of Thebes, they give them to him as shields charged symbolic figures. The first is appointed by Aeschylus Tydeus who bore on his shield the image of death, or, as Euripides, the body of a lion. Capaneus is the second, Aeschylus gives him a Prometheus, the torch in hand, with these words: I will reduce the city to ashes.
In Euripides, it is a giant who carries on his shoulders and shakes the mass of the earth. Polynices bears on his shield the goddess Justice, who led, and these words: I will restore you.
Speakers and poets of antiquity have almost as much foreign exchange they have metaphors, to take the currency in its essence. The letters SPQR, which are still the motto of the city of Rome, are the initials of words that Senatus populus Romanus. The famous Hasmonean Judas, so zealous in defense of God's law and for freedom of Judea, put on his signs and banners on its initial letters of a Hebrew sentence, taken from Chapter XV, V. 2. of the Exodus: Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods. However, as the initial letters of these words are in Hebrew MACCABI, chiefs or kings of the Hasmonean Jewish race were called the Maccabees.
It takes only read history and novels for the old currency notes are encrypted and embroidered on hats, with various figures of birds and animals that have been made since the arms. These currencies were not a big part of the shield, and Boswell is mistaken when he attributes to the arms like the cause of the quarrel between John Chandos and Jean de Clermont. These two knights wore distinct arms, and the cause of their quarrel was a motto that they were both in honor of the lady.
Froissart recounts the quarrel: "No knights rode in both French and English battles Costoyas adviser for everyone agreeing its enemies, it happened that my lord John Chandos had that day, and rode costoyé at the Battle of King of France on aisle. In so had ridden Mr. Jean de Clermont, one of the marshals of France, by imagining the state of the English. And therefore as if these two knights returning each Devers her part, they met each other, if each were a single currency for a blue lady crafted an edge ray of sunshine, and always under their clothes haux in whatever state they were, if my lord Clermont said: Chandos, since when did you Emprin to wear my currency? But you, my own, "said Chandos, for as well as mine Is yours? I deny you, says Bishop of Clermont, and if the pain was not between yours and ours, I showed you earlier that you have no cause to wear it. Ha! said Monsignor John Chandos, you will find me tomorrow while paired to defend and prove by feat of arms that both she is mine as yours. Monseigneur Jean de Clermont said Chandos, have good words for your English, who know nothing new adviser, but that they see when they are beautiful. "At all passed Furthermore, there was not more done or adonc more words, and each returned Devers its people. "
ago currencies of various kinds, for example:
ago currencies of various kinds, for example:
In allusion to the name of houses
Vaudray: I earned, and worth Vaudray.
Grandson: A small bell, big sound.
In relation to parts of the Arms:
Montchenu (which carries a band in his arms) the right way.
Others were taken by the knights only to be understood that people they loved.
Philip the Good: else would.
Jacques de Brimeu: More than all.
They were still proverbs or sentences:
Solara: This pride does not kill.
Baronat: Vertu honor guide.
But the most honorable currencies are those that consist of historic words, because they always remember a great event.
Gusman Medina: King trumps blood. Don Alonzo Perez de Guzman, as governor of Tarifa in 1293, was besieged by the Moors and ordered to surrender the place, lest death his son, who was a prisoner of the enemy. Guzman threw them a dagger, exclaiming: King outweighs the blood!
They are still very often legends like Caesar Borgia: Aut Caesar aut nihil.
Francis I, and before him Charles, Count of Angouleme, his father was a salamander currency, with these words: Nutrisco extinguo and to signify that he would protect the good and the annihilation of the wicked. This motto was engraved and carved into several palaces. We see her again at Fontainebleau on a tapestry with this couplet: Ursus atrox, aquila drawbridge and tortilis anguis Cesserunt flammae jam salamandra tuae.
This meant that Francis was defeated by its value, represented by the Swiss Bear, by the Imperial eagle, and the Milanese by the snake.
The princes gave old currency to the lords of the court, when they received as stooges, that is to say when they attach to their service. Upton said that in England, when the king created a noble giving it a military stronghold, it gave him time even the currency.
The currency usually moves in a scroll at the bottom of the shield, the rim of color and metal letters, took one or the other of the enamel crown. In the above example of the salamander, adopted as a motto by Francis I. The salamander is called the body of the currency, and the couplet the soul of the currency.
The motto
hereditary, which merges with the cry and we always put above the crest of which it forms part, so to speak, is usually composed of words that also express an allegorical and brief a thought, a feeling, a purpose, a quality. A very large number of old houses have inherited currencies, many of which are derived from names such as:
Achay: Never tired of asher.
Arsces: The trunk is green and the leaves are Arses.
The House of Bourbon's motto is: Hope.
